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John Carlson lived in Maynard for several years and worked at the W.B.Case store. He left Maynard about 50 years ago and went to live out west. He carried this revolver for several years. Eventually he became a resident of Harrison, Maine. He…

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A pencil sharpener from the Roosevelt School in the 1930's.

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A horn trophy from the Kanto Athletic Club (A.C.) Collection.

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An old Buck Rogers Ray Gun from 1947 vintage.

Buck Rogers is a science fiction adventure hero and feature comic strip created by Philip Francis Nowlan first appearing in daily US newspapers on January 7, 1929, and subsequently appearing in…

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A powder horn made from a cow's horn.

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The Ernest Jarvi World War II Collection includes a messkit, 2 meal cans, several samples of foreign currency, and US and German insignias. Ernest Jarvi was a member of the 320th Bomb Group during the War.

The meal cup has inscriptions of the…

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A brass lamp used to disinfect and deodorize your home. Formalin is a form of formaldehyde and was vaporized to kill a variety of bacteria in the home and workplace. The lamp sold for $1.75 and the formalin pellets were $.30 for 20 ct.

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This kerosene lantern was used by Charles Ryan, Sr. while watchman at the Walnut Street Gate of the Assabet Mills. It was carried by Mr. Ryan when making his hourly rounds through the mills.

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This was a dot matrix printer with a tractor paper feed attached, originally costing $835 It has a moving dot matrix head with 9 pins, and thermal printing features, and could print 9x9 dots per character in text mode or 72x240 dots per inch. It…

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The football from the game between Maynard High School and Concord High School in 1962. Maynard scored 12 points; Concord scored 0 points.

Names include: Bobby W. (Bobby Whitney), Jack H. (Jack Hackett), Prim (Bill Primiano), Ben (Ben Oldham),…

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The LA50 was a compact, dot matrix, serial printer. It was designed for use in personal computer systems, office workstations, and small-sized business computer systems.

The LA50 receives characters and commands through an asynchronous serial…

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A four hundred page binder containing documentation for the Rainbow computer.

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A book introducing the features and capabilities of the Rainbow personal computer.

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A box kit containing documentation for the Rainbow personal computer.
Six manuals: Read Me First, Getting Started, Users Guide, Installation Guide, Owners Manual, Memory Extension Option Installation Guide
Four Floppy disc

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A box kit containing a Reference Manual, User Guide and a floppy disc develop by Microsoft Corporation for the Rainbow personal computer.

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A plaque with the LSI 11 chip set commemorating the the 50000th Microcomputer Computer manufactured in New Mexico.

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An anniversary plaque commemorating Digitals 25 years presented by the Mill Facilities Organization.

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A plaque presented to Rhoda Bedard in 1983 at the time of her leaving Digital.
It was signed by:
Lenny Haywood, Phyllis Galletta, Janet Cincotta, John Halman, Gabe Divitto, Leona Ballard, Mark Evers, Orlando Garcia, Bob Coolidge, Bob Creed, Leona…

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Plaque presented to Ken Olsen by the Maynard Chamber of Commerce in recognition of his contributions to Maynard.

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The circuit board is embedded in acrylic and used as a display.

FDDI stands for "Fiber Distributed Data Interface", a standard used in the early 1990s for data transmission in a local area network using optical fiber cables.